CENTURIES, stefan salvatore [1]

Catch Me If You Can

CHAPTER 69: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

The Salvatore Boarding House

Some people might have ended up uncomfortable if they had a friendship with Natalie Saltzman. Of course, she was a nice person (most of the time), she was supportive if it was actually a good thing she was supporting, but she was also a fan of coming over unannounced, even sitting on your bed as you're in the shower, or maybe that was limited to the Stefan Salvatore's of the world.

She just sat on his bed, casually flipping through his diary in boredom, awaiting his arrival. And once he finally came out, he frowned at seeing her simply sitting there. "You know, knocking's a thing."

"You know, I don't care. You see, I was really bored and I saw a book and I started reading. Too late did I notice that it was your diary and I found some interesting things. My feelings for Natalie are confusing. As much as I'd like for them to be simple, even if I don't know in what way, they are the most complicated thing in my life at the moment. And then I found this: What I wanted was to start anew, fall in love with a beautiful girl and have a life in Mystic Falls. It didn't turn out that way. My past haunts me, correction, my brother haunts me, and I did fall in love with a beautiful girl, but I also fell in love with another, it is like-" she read from his diary, and he looked embarrassed, of course, knowing that she had been reading about his struggle when it came to her.

He grabbed it out of her hand, not wanting her to have any more knowledge on what was in there, because she'd be teasing him and over all trying to be annoying, even if she ends up simply being cute. "Okay, I think that's enough reading today. Why are you really here?"

She sighed as she crossed her arms over her chest, having really enjoyed making him uncomfortable there, but life had to go on. "Usually when you partner up, you talk, discuss, anything. Look, we're at a bit of a disadvantage in this whole race for the cure. Team Klaus has Jeremy the hunter, team Shane has Bonnie the witch-"

He cut her off as he pushed his diary onto his shelf, making sure that it was the right order so he wouldn't have to go and organize it later. "If you're here to remind me of our last place status, I'm very well aware."

She smiled sarcastically at him just thinking that she was there to make him come up with a plan, as if she hadn't already made one herself. "Actually, I have a plan. The cure is buried with Silas, that ancient evil guy that Kol is afraid of. Shane was so eager to prove his existence that he gave away that he has one of the keys to resurrecting him, his headstone."

He looked up at her with a look that basically told her that he knew exactly what she wanted to do. "I see. You wanna steal it."

"Ah, you know me so well. And after we have it, Team Shane will have to join Team Statalie, and Team Klaus... good luck to them?" she chuckled at her own words, pushing herself off of Stefan's bed.

He nodded, finding it to be reasonable plan, before turning to face her and frowning at one thing she said. "Team Statalie?"

"Just go with it."

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Professor Shane's Office

The duo wasted no time in rushing towards the professor's office at Whitmore college, even if it took a little driving as Natalie was blasting music and Stefan was trying not to break the radio, just for her sake. But after that, they managed to get to the office, rummaging through a few things and came up with absolutely nothing.

He grunted in annoyance throwing a book back in place after rummaging around it and not seeing anything headstone-ish. "Well. Headstone's not here."