lovestruck || tvd

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"I can't do this, Stefan." Elena took a deep breath as she gave Stefan a faint smile. "Around you, all of these people get hurt and then people die, I can't, it- It's just too much." Elena stuttered.

"Why don't we go somewhere and talk about it?" Stefan suggested, cutting Elena's sentence off.

"No. Stefan, you have to stay away from me." Elena looked at Stefan for a slight second then walked away from him. His eyes followed her as she got in the car and drove off with Jeremy and Jenna.

"Ouch. That had to of hurt." It's been years since Stefan heard the very specific voice speak up, he began to frantically look around, in hopes it wasn't who he thought it was. Once he had finally looked in front of him again, he saw her. Arabella standing up against the door behind her, with a huge smirk on her face.

"Probably not as much as me watching you move on again though." Arabella sighed as she pushed herself off of the door and walked towards Stefan. "What's wrong, Stef? Did you not miss me?" Arabella pouted and Stefan took a deep breath.

"You're supposed to be dead, I saw the stake drive through your heart." Stefan inched closer to Arabella, looking at her in all sorts of ways to check if it was really her.

"Well technically I am dead, I have been for centuries." Arabella shrugged as she took a step closer to Stefan. "But you didn't answer my question." She looked up at him and cupped his face in her hands.

"You faked your death. You claimed you loved me but you left me when I needed you, you come back to me 80 years later, what did you expect?" Stefan snapped at her as he yanked his head back to get out of her grip.

"Your memories were compelled away that year by Klaus, he compelled you to forget everything except for me and him "killing" me. You don't know who he is, but Klaus and I teamed up to keep me safe because Rebekah was after me because we were together. Either I would've died for real or I wouldn't have, and i've survived this long, i'm not giving up." Arabella sniffled as she began to remember the traumatic events that happened in the 1920's.

"Through all of it, i've seen you move on to countless girls, new lives, then lastly, you settle down with yet another Petrova Doppelgänger." She scoffed and shook her head.

"You don't get to come here and act like you love me after all of these years. I don't love you anymore, I love Elena, so please stay out of the way of her and I." Stefan took a step back and Arabella wiped the single tear that had left her eye.

"When you saw the stake go through my heart, you didn't even care, I saw you, all you did was drop jaw then you brushed it off. So, don't act like you cared so much when you didn't." She argued and argued, anything to make herself not seem like the bad guy.

"My humanity was off, you know that." Stefan grunted as he became filled with anger.

"Which means you didn't feel the pain, so stop acting like it."

"I did! It was the moment I felt my humanity peaking in but I didn't let it take control, now for the last time, Arabella, leave and stay out of the way of me and my relationship." Stefan yelled at her and she had no reaction.

"Okay." She clenched her jaw to prevent herself from saying more, then she turned around and began to walk away.

Stefan didn't go after her, as a matter of fact, he went the opposite way of her, to his house. He was anxiously waiting to get to his house and think of ways to prevent Arabella from meeting Elena. Deep down he knows she wasn't ever a bad person, but it's been 80 years and people change.