𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐐𝐔𝐄, 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐄

Four

"You should be here", Stefan said after Damon let to distract Klaus. "Where else would I be?", Elena asked.  "Elena what do you want? Damon won't be able to distract Klaus for long". Elena simply ignored him and placed her hands on Stefan's cheeks. 

"Come home", she said, looking to Stefan's eyes. Elena wrapped her arms Stefan's neck but he just stood there. Elena had a syringe bottle (A/n.... idk what it was called) filled with vervain. She was closed to stabbing him with it but Stefan sensed it. He grabbed her wrist harshly and Elena cried in pain.

"How much clearer can I make it?", he asked. "I don't want to come home".

***

"Klaus is obsessed with siring these hybrids. The second he knows you're alive, he'll figure out why it's not working", Stefan explained. "Look, I know you're trying to protect me, but I can't let you do it", Elena said as she walked closer to Stefan.

"Come with me, Stefan, please".

"And what do you expect if I do? Huh?", he asked. "It's never going to be the same, Elena". "I know that". "I don't think you do", Stefan scoffed. "I've left bodies scattered from Florida to Tennessee. Innocent people. Humans", Stefan tried to get the fact through her head to let her go. 

"Lexi found you like this before. In the twenties, and she saved you", Elena said. "And do you know what I did after that?", he asked.  "I spent 30 years trying to pull myself together. To a vampire, that's nothing. To you? That's half your life".

"I can't give up on you, Stefan".

"Yes, you can. It's done. That part of my life is done". he said. "Don't want to see you. I don't want to be with you. I just want you to go", he said before turning around and leaving.

***

The coffins of Rebekah and Verena had been opened and empty. Klaus looked behind the coffins and the men from earlier were on the floor dead. "Verena. Rebekah", he said.

"Come on now. It's your brother. Come out, come out wherever you are", Klaus turned around and Rebekah held a golden dagger that Verena had probably given her. "Go to hell, Nik". 

Chicago, 1922

"Verena, we have to leave", Klaus said again after daggering Rebekah. "Let's go!". "What about Stefan? He might have been hit by the wooden bullets", she said.

"Verena. Do you want to die? We've been found, we must move". "What about Stefan? Why can't you just let me see if he is alive?", she pleaded. 

"Stefan's not coming".

"What did you do, Niklaus?", Verena sternly asked. Klaus ignored her question but grabbed her wrist to pull her into the truck. "Verena! Come on, we must leave".  

"Niklaus, I've been with you for centuries. You don't need anyone to be with you. For god's sake Niklaus, you are the original hybrid, you could easily kill Mikael but you can't", Verena finally snapped.

"Because you are scared and I'm happy and you don't want me to leave you for Stefan. So, Niklaus I advice you to grow up and stop being such a child!".

"Fine then. Choose", Klaus said. "Him or me?".

Verena stayed silent for a moment and Klaus thought that she had chosen him. But he obviously thought wrong. "That's what I thought", he turned to the truck expecting Verena to follow behind him.