I Need My Girl (Stefonnie)

Chapter 5

Stefan's eyes blinked open feeling himself weaken by the second. As his eyes adjusted and landed on his brother, his anger grew and if he could, he would have his heart in his hand, but he was chained down to a chair.

"Easy, brother."

"Where is she?" He growled.

"She's dead."

Everything that made him up fell apart. "How could you do this to me?"

"I didn't do it, Stefan. Bonnie died close to a year ago in an accident. She was doing some modeling on a motorcycle and she fell, hit her head against the street. You were working and by the time you got there, it was too late."

"You're lying."

"I'm not, Stefan. I knew I never should have let you do this,"

"Do what?"

He let out a breath. "I tried, Stefan. I've never seen you like that before. We've been through hell, but never like that. I've caught you trying to kill yourself multiple times, killing others, harming anything in sight. So I found someone. A witch, I- I asked her to help you. I thought that if you could just see her one more time that everything would go away."

"What are you talking about?"

"You were dreaming. All of it was truth, what you saw did happen, but that was in the past. She told me that the longer you slept, the more difficult it would be to snap you back to reality, but when I would go to wake you, you would always have this smile on your face and I just couldn't. I know I'm a shitty brother, but I couldn't tear that away from you. It's been three months, so I tied you up because I knew that you would react badly."

"You're lying."

"I'm not."

"I want to see her. Visit the grave, I need to-"

"She was cremated. Her ashes sprinkled in the sea."

"That wasn't the plan, we wanted to be buried together."

"She changed her mind. She never wanted you to end your life so she made herself non-existent. She wanted you to move on quickly."

His heart picked up. "I don't believe you! She wanted to be a vampire, I was going to turn her do we could live together forever, she-"

"You told me that you couldn't do it. You wanted to, but you couldn't because you didn't want her to have such a curse. She was mad at you, but she got over it."

"I don't believe you!"

"Stefan," he dropped his thought then walked out of the room then shortly returned with a newspaper. He let the chains loose from his brother's wrist then handed it to him. "Read it yourself."

Stefan looked up reading his brother's eyes then the paper. His hands shook finding her picture among the others in the obituary and tears fell from his eyes like a storm. He clinched the paper in his hands staring at her beautiful face in the black and white picture and Damon cursed as he quickly slipped off his ring and stood in front of the window. He tackled him into the bed holding him down struggling to put the ring back on.

"Stefan. This isn't what she would've wanted."

"Fuck you, you have no idea what she wants!" He tries to fight but no matter how angry he is, he's weak.

Damon loosens his hold as his brother breaks down again and for the second time in his life, he holds him feeling tears swell in his eyes, but he holds them back. "I'm sorry. Okay, I'm sorry. I don't know how you feel, but you need to try and live. That's what she wanted, Stefan, I wouldn't lie to you. Not about this."