Vampire Diaries Imagines

Miss Him - Jeremy Gilbert

I watched her from the shadows as she waited for her brother to clock out for the day. Which she has seemingly done a lot lately. It was (Y/N) was afraid to be alone. But the (Y/H/C) haired girl would never admit to that though. Maybe Matt knew that and invited her to keep him company while he worked. That way he was able to keep an eye on her. I didn't know that for sure.

I wish I was able to hold her again and tell her that everything was okay. It was something that had always calmed her down in the past. But unfortunately, I no longer have that luxury. Watching her like this saddened me quite a bit.

Matt soon enough comes from the back room having just clocked out. He grabs her coat from the back of her chair and then wrapped it around her. Afterward, he picked up her book bag from the floor. Then the two of them walked towards the door.

"Did you still want to go, (Y/N/N)?" Matt asked.

She closed her beautiful (Y/E/C) eyes for just a moment before she nodded. "It's been a while. There's a reason it's there." Her voice had become so soft over the past few months that it made her sound so small.

The blue-eyed boy nodded. "They had it put there for you."

Her head moved in a nod once again. "I know." With that, they walked out of the grill.

I looked around the place and saw Elena, Damon, and Stefan's conceded eyes follow the two of them out the door. They all worried about her now more than ever. All of them knew she had lost so much in her short lifetime and most would say losing me was just the cherry on top of her horrible Sunday.

"She's okay, right?" My sister asked the Salvatore brothers.

Damon shrugged. "It's hard to say but if not then she's putting on the performance of a lifetime."

Elena looked from him to Stefan who said, "Jeremy was the love of her life and because of Katherine she doesn't have that anymore. I would be greatly concerned if she was okay."

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Standing now in the cemetery next to my parents' grave, I watched as the two Donovan siblings walked toward me. They stop not too far from where I stood and (Y/N) kneels at the newest stone place on the piece of land. I could see the tears start to roll down her face as she did so.

"It's good to see her out here again." Ric's voice from behind me. "I was starting to worry that she had forgotten it was there. She seems to visit mine far more than she does yours."

"It's difficult for her. If it's like this every time then it doesn't bother me at all. (Y/N) knows I'm not there anyway." I said as I watched Matt crouch down beside his little sister and rub her back gently. "Because of a bitch with no real motives, (Y/N/N) goes through life in so much grief right now. If a stone with my name on it causes her to hurt more then I don't want her to be here just as much as she doesn't."

Ric and I stood there for a moment in the silence that surrounded the 4 of us. Then we could hear the silent sobs that my girl desperately tried to hide. Stefan was right many times before when he said the pain she feels may not be physical but even still it is causing a great deal of damage.

"Matty, I miss him." She confesses to her brother through tears.

Matt kissed her head softly as he continued the soft motions his hand was making on her back. "I know, (Y/N/N)."

"She's trying to be okay for everyone but it's breaking her more and more." I say to Ric.

He gave me a quick nod. "She'll get to where even though it'll still be hard, she won't have to pretend anymore."

I walked over to where (Y/N) and Matt were, crouching down myself. My gaze followed every line of my name etched into the granite. It pained me toes the girl I loved more than anything in this world hurt like this. I placed my hand gently on her shoulder and could feel the shiver that went through her.

Obviously, so did Matt because after a second he asked, "(Y/N/N)? What is it?"

(Y/N) looked up at her brother with a teary-eyed smile and said "He's here."

"I always will be, baby." I whispered with a smile of my own.