I'll Wait For Love (Steroline Fanfic Season 7)

Chapter 4: Later is better than never...

"Okay!" Caroline was still processing everything Stefan had just told her. "So in less than a week, I'll lose my two best friends forever." Tears were rolling down her rosy cheeks.

"That's not gonna happen. I will find a way to get out of here or somehow get Damon to find and kill Valarie." Stefan didn't want to see Care like this. He knew that all this wouldn't have happened if they wouldn't have met yesterday; Caroline would be free and happy; Aisha would be able to cure Bonnie but instead, he was sitting there, waiting for everyone's lives to fall apart.

"Well I hope he does but from the sound of it, Damon is basically back to his old ways. If he finds Valerie he will kill her but I'm just scared about how long that will take."

"I don't know how long we'll have to wait but Damon does still care, he was so sorry for what he did to Bonnie...he was desperate. We all were."

"Well at least your life is way more exciting than mine. I just wake up. Send Angel to school. Go to work, come back. Spend the evening with Angel and the whole process starts again.

"So Seven years." Stefan was looking into Caroline's eyes. It seemed like she loved her life but her eyes told a different story. There was a certain sadness in her eyes. Like she needed more. She wanted what she had discovered when she first became a vampire. That security, that passion, that danger. She had discovered herself once but now she seemed lost. "Seven years and that's how you've lived your life? It seems like your back to your insecure, neurotic, control freak self again."

"And you're still too serious."

They both burst out laughing.

"Did you not find someone to love? This whole time, did you not want to give Angel a father?" Stefan broke the laughter.

There was a silence.

"Sometimes." Caroline replied finally. "Sometimes, I wish she could have a father, you know."

Stefan went back to that memory when he had rejected to be Angel's father.

"But I need to tell you something, Stefan." Caroline continued. "There's this guy. Peter. He's a great friend of mine and we work together. I met him three years ago and we got closer. He said he loved me but I never felt that way about him. But yesterday, something really weird happened."

"What?" Stefan was going to regret this. And what did she mean when she said 'I never felt that way about him'?

"He proposed to me."

"Ummmm..." Stefan was startled for a minute. She said they were just friends. Had they even dated? Jealousy was crawling up his spine, causing him to shiver. "Did you say yes?" That was all he could get out.

"No! Well at least not yet. I told him that I needed time to think. I mean I don't know what to say to him. He's human, I'm not. But he is really close to us and Angel loves him too..."

"Do you though? Do you love him?" Stefan interrupted.

"Love is a very complicated feeling. Sometimes the people we love, we can't have." Stefan and Caroline shared a moment; their lips were so close to meet .

"Why all the depressing talk?" Stefan broke the moment. "Let's party!" Stefan opened a bottle of wine and turned on some music.

"What!? No! What if Angel wakes up?"

"She won't. You compelled her to stay asleep till morning remember?"

Before Caroline could fight Stefan pulled her up and started dancing. Caroline stood there laughing but eventually gave in. They partied hard all night, just like the old times. Care was swaying her hips and Stefan drooling a little on the coffee table. Stefan saw that Caroline again. That Caroline who was a control freak but yet the light in the darkness. That bubbly friend was back.