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Always and Forever

A/N: This is upon the request of a very special friend who has an undying love for Stelena. Thank you so much for requesting this, I have never written a character x character fiction before and this was so exciting. Hope you like it <3 p.s. sorry for the delay!

Summary: So this fiction is based on the timeline of when the travelers did their spell and made Mystic Falls vampire free and Bonnie and Damon were stuck on the other side. Elena is still a human in this one because it's AU and she was together with Stefan until he turned his humanity off because he could not handle the pain. He leaves Elena which makes the situation worse. One night, Elena is attacked by a newbie vampire, would Stefan be there to save her or would he lose control?

Word Count: 2k

Genre: Elena x Stefan, ripper!stefan, nh!stefan, TVD!AU, angst and ending with fluff.

Warnings: Mentions of blood.

“Elena? …. Elena?” called out Caroline.

Elena soon zoned in, “Yeah, Caroline I was just thinking about…”

“Stefan?” said Caroline raising an eyebrow at her.

“No, actually I was thinking about what to gift you for your birthday.”

It has been nearly a month since the travelers sacrificed themselves and made mystic falls vampire-free. It was not easy for anyone. Bonnie and Damon could not make it through the other side. Elena and Caroline were missing their best friend and Stefan was missing the only family he had his brother Damon.

Caroline could not spend time with her mother. As Caroline couldn’t cross the Mystic Falls border, they had to meet just outside of Mystic Falls. Elena had it worse of all. She lost her best friend and her boyfriend Stefan. Stefan finally had the hope to get his best friend Lexi back but unfortunately Luke abruptly stopped Liv from doing the spell leaving Bonnie, Damon, and Lexi on the other side.

When Stefan got the news that Lexi and Damon are not coming back, he was devastated. He could not handle that pain and in turn, he flipped his humanity switch. No one could get him to turn his humanity back on. That was the thing with Stefan, he was an escapist he wanted to escape from all the overwhelming emotions and the thought of never seeing his brother ever again. He knew the consequences of turning into a ripper, but the pain of losing his brother overcame the love he had for his girl. He could not bear the loss and somehow felt that it was all his fault.

His ripper side worried everyone. He got admission into Whitmore college and started recklessly feeding off the students with no remorse.

Elena with help of her friends tried it all, the sweet talk of love, trying to show him hope, trying to tell him that their love is worth holding on to. When the talks failed, they adopted ‘The Lexi Method’. In some way, Enzo deceived Stefan and injected him with vervain. They locked him up, tortured him, and starved him. Nothing seemed to work, he was acting extremely stubborn this time. One day when Enzo went in to check on Stefan, he was surprised to see him gone. He had escaped and was nowhere to be found.

Elena lost all hope to get the love of her life back. She was not a vampire who could just turn her emotions off, she was a human and had no way to escape the feelings. She felt hollow and did want to have that spark of hope anymore. She soon realized that she had to keep herself together, she had to go through her life, and she had to keep moving. Maybe the love she was holding onto was not worth it and if their love was real Stefan would find a way back to her.

To distract herself she decided to throw Caroline a birthday party. To Elena it does not matter if her world was falling apart, she always wanted the best for her friends and she wanted everyone to make a fresh start, therefore she planned a surprise party for Caroline at the McKinley diner near their college since they could not go to the Grill. Back to the present, there she was sitting lifeless at the table “pretending” to enjoy the party.

“Oh, come on Elena, snap out of!” said Caroline as she knew Elena was lying to her about forgetting about Stefan. She knew her best friend more than anyone in the world.

“You need to get over that selfish man who could not even hold onto the love you had for him. Look around so many cute and hot guys are here at the party, and Liam hasn’t taken his eyes off of you the whole night, you should go talk to him aren’t you guys in the same class?”

“Yes, Caroline we are. But I am not in the mood for talking to guys and stuff,” said Elena.

Caroline pouted at the response “No I am not listening to you, it’s my birthday and you have to do as the birthday girl says,” she demanded.

Caroline was not wrong. Elena was a beautiful girl, and she wore a black laced V-neck dress exposing her cleavage but in a cute way. Elena could date any guy she wanted to, but she still missed Stefan, he was her soulmate after all.

But as Caroline insisted further, she walked up to Liam and talked to him. He was sweet, respectful, and hot. For a while Elena felt good, she had a smile on her face that was missing for the past month, and after a long time, she was happy.

She decided to leave for the dormitory early as she wanted to spend some time alone with herself and reflect on her thoughts.

“Hey, could I walk you to your room?” asked Liam politely.

“Um, thank you so much for asking Liam, but you should enjoy the party, it's still early. I'll be fine.”

“Yeah, yeah sure! So, see you in class?”

“Yeah, see you!” Elena smiled and proceeded towards the college.

The night was cold as it was October. Elena forgot to bring her coat and wanted to reach her room as fast as possible. Elena looked up and the sight of the night sky was alluring. The stars were shining brightly, and the pale crescent moon shone like a silvery claw. She sighed and grinned at the sight in front of her eyes.

As she was walking towards the college, Stefan appeared in front of her out of nowhere and started walking with her. But she did not care, she was hurt enough and did not want to let her guard down again. She ignored him and started walking on her path.

“So, you are ignoring me now?” asked Stefan.

“What do you want Stefan?”

“Nothing, I just thought you could use some company as you are alone. Is it safe for you to be all alone at this hour of the night?” questioned Stefan.

“Why do you even care? Huh? You left me remember?”

“Oh no, I do not care at all. I don’t care if you are bitten by a vampire or get attacked by some drunk asshole. I just wanted to have some company because I was getting bored and look you are in a need of company too.”

Elena scoffed, “Well the vampire who was rashly feeding ran away so I guess I am safe," said Elena savagely.

Before Stefan could say anything, Elena continued, “you don’t get to do this Stefan. There was a man who loved me, who would do anything to protect me, but he left me and with him, all my feelings for him left too. He could not care less about the connection we had, about the memories we had. He left me. You don’t get to show up anytime you want to and pretend like you did not do anything like you didn’t hurt anyone. Just leave me alone, okay? I do not want you here no one does.”

Elena was on the verge of crying, but she did not want to show Stefan that she cared. She was strong enough to tell him that he made a mistake. Stefan stood there speechless as Elena walked away from him. Doesn't matter how hard she tried, the memories flooded back to her, she started thinking about the time when they were together and how he would do anything to save her. But unfortunately, that Stefan was far gone, and this thought made her sob and tears started streaming down her face as she continued walking.

She stopped abruptly as she saw a tall man standing in front of her, she was terrified and for a moment lost all her senses. Her heart was racing inside her chest as the man started walking closer to her, she reached for the pepper spray in her bag and sprayed it all over his face. This gave her a little head start and she ran as fast as she could, but that man was faster and as she turned she saw him standing right in front of her with the speed of light. She realized that he was a vampire. She gasped and decided to run again but before she could take any action, the vampire sunk his fangs into Elena’s neck.

Elena drowned in a terrifying blankness, the pain was hot and sharp. She could not scream, and tears started flowing down her eyes as she started losing consciousness. Before the vampire could suck more blood, he was thrown away from her and Elena fell to the ground. She was not strong enough to stand but she could see everything that was happening. Stefan came to her rescue. Stefan was infuriated by the incident and had no control over his anger, he walked up to the vampire in rage and ripped his heart out.

Stefan soon realized that Elena was hurt and needed help. He saw Elena and froze at the sight. Elena’s blood was rushing out of her body frantically and Stefan started losing control. He could smell her blood, he could hear the veins pumping inside her body, his face turned blue-black and his eyes red. He felt helpless and uneasy.

“Stefan, please don’t,” Elena whined. “Stefan, please don’t hurt me. You can control it, Stefan, just breathe.”

Stefan shut his eyes and took a deep breath. The veins started disappearing from his face and his eyes came back to normal. He rushed towards Elena and knelt on her body. He took her into his arms and bit one of his wrists to feed her some of his blood to save her life as she was losing consciousness. Elena started feeling better and glared into Stefan’s beautiful green eyes, the eyes she missed staring into.

“You flipped your switch?” Elena whimpered.

“Yes, I did. I am so sorry Elena. I should not have done that. I should not have left you alone, I should have understood that you were going through the same thing. You lost your best friend too. I am so sorry to abandon you like that and to turn my back on you. I promise that I am here with you. We will go through this together. I love you so much and I never want to leave you ever again. I committed a terrible mistake, Elena, please forgive me.”

Tears were streaming down Stefan’s eyes as he could see that just because of him Elena was hurt and that she could have died tonight. He was hurt because of the pain that Elena had to go through because of him and he was apologetic about it. He wanted to make everything okay. He was trapped under a pile of guilt and felt terrible.

“It’s okay Stefan. I forgive you. There is nothing more than okay to know that you are here with me and that you turned your humanity back on. I love you too Stefan, more than anything. I am so glad that you were here to save me, I could have died,” said Elena wiping tears off Stefan’s face while sobbing.

Stefan cut her off and said, “Hey, don’t say that. And I feel terrible that you had to nearly die to get my humanity back.  I am here for you always and remember you are Elena Gilbert, you always survive.” Elena lightly chucked and said, “I love you, Stefan, we are in this together.”

Stefan held her tight like he was never going to let her go ever again. He loved her and she loved him. The connection between them was impenetrable. They were soulmates and no matter what the circumstances were, they always found a way back to each other.

 Stefan kissed her forehead, and whispered in her ears while he engulfed her in a hug, “I love you more, always and forever.”

A/N: This is the kinda love I crave, aren't they adorable? and tysm for requesting this Mae, I enjoyed writing this a lot. It's nice to go unconventional and do something you have never done before, anyways...

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Prologue. Mystic Falls, Virginia. 16th April, 2000.

“This wasn’t supposed to happen!” Sherriff Forbes declared smacking her bare hands at the side of the long desk, where nine other people were seated. All the members of the Mystic Falls Council were confined into the meeting room which stanched of anxiety and nervousness “The council will be held responsible.”

“We are aware of that, Liz.” Carol Lockwood raised her voice, her arms crossed against her chest, biting into her perfectly manicured fingernails.

“Well, what do you suggest?” Liz questioned. “This was the plan to put a stop to what could have happened - to act against nothing but a threat given by him! And now, she is dead! His. Wife. Is. Dead! We had to keep her as leverage against the My- ”

“We took the responsibility of protecting one of our own by killing one of them! This only worsens things!” Grayson Gilbert announced. “He’ll retaliate and this time, I’m afraid there will be a massacre and he’ll rip our damned heads off and keep them as trophies.”

“We had no choice but to kill her! She was going to shoot Giuseppe and he acted in self-defense!” Logan Fell snapped.

“It’s true. I mean – “ Giuseppe Salvatore was interrupted.

“It’s not our fault she tried to shoot - ” Logan tried to convince everyone..

“It is, Logan!” Liz Forbes banged her hand again. “If we hadn’t kidnapped her - ”

“Then he would have killed An - ” Kelly Donavan was interrupted by Miranda Somers-Gilbert.

“Who is dead anyway! Everything - is just a mess! It’s all screwed. We failed. And now he is on the loose and I fear that Grayson’s right… What if he comes after us!? What if comes after our children!?” She threw her hands up in the air.

“We won’t let that happen, Miranda…” William Forbes trailed off.

“How?” Liz glared at her husband, her blue eyes shooting daggers. “Enlighten me, Bill.”

Richard had sat on his chair, throughout the discussion. He seemed to be drifted into a deep thought. “We frame him…” Mayor Lockwood informed. “For murdering his wife.”

“What!?” Miranda and Kelly said at once. Everyone else glanced and the Mayor. Liz was still stunned by the new idea suggested by the Mayor; it took her a moment before reacting.

“That is insane! We did this. This is our doing - ”

“Liz, would you rather let him run loose and drag our asses to prison leaving our children behind - under the care of a pathetic foster system? For God’s sake, think! We did not have the permission to carry out the plan, yet we did it to protect this town! If the government finds out about this, we lose everything! If not, we are in danger. And so are our children.” Mayor Lockwood gestured. He took a moment to sigh. “He’s a threat now. He will kill us all. We made a mistake and now we are forced to fix it. ”

“You call this fixing the mistake!?” Miranda shook her head, hugging herself.

“This is just covering up one mistake with another, don’t you think Mayor? This doesn’t make us any better than monsters like him.” Rudy Bennett suggested.

“It will put away the monster that we’re all afraid of,” Mayor said. “One that’s perhaps a bigger monster than us. This is not the time to think about doing the right thing. It’s the time for choosing the safest choice. To protect our families, our homes, our town.” He locked his eyes in Liz’s. “And that’s the only choice we have if you come to think about it.”

“Besides,” Logan Fell put his arms together. “You all witnessed what he did to the Lebonnairs. It’s not like he doesn’t deserve it.” He gave each one of the members a quick glance. “I’m with Mayor Lockwood on this.”

“But what about the bodies?” Kelly Donavan asked impatiently. “We have nothing to frame on! We never found them - ”

“Grayson’s a doctor,” Logan turned his attention to Grayson. “Stealing two unidentified bodies from the morgue seems like an easy job and the post mortem reports could be altered, can’t it Mrs. Gilbert?” He gave Miranda a crooked smile. “The rest could be left to us. Bill could plant the evidence while… Giuseppe fixes the bodies in his fashion. Sherriff could play along with the Mayors and me giving dramatic interviews to the press.” He turned to face Kelly, who was the reporter of Mystic Falls, who unfortunately belonged to one of the founding families.

“You all must be one brick short of a full load!” Liz yelled.

“Liz,” Carol placed a hand on Liz’s shoulder. “You need to calm down - ”

“Grayson,” Mayor Lockwood talked. “You know your job. Do this for the sakes of your children. If we don’t put away this monster, we are all doomed.”

After a while of thinking, Grayson Gilbert finally nodded.

“It is the only way,” Mayor Lockwood gave all a convincing look. “You know I’m right.”

In spite of the whirling distress that stormed within them, they believed he was right about concealing the truth, no matter the cost. It had to be withheld even though the solution was very unjust. That was the night a selfish decision was made by the Council, whilst being completely unaware of the fact that they were provoking an indubitable catastrophe that would venture everyone’s life.

They were nothing but fools to think that this was indeed the end of a terrifying chapter that they’d never again have to encounter, when it had been the beginning of their demise all along.