Hold On, I Still Need You

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Hey, I can't believe I am already posting the third chapter of this story! I am so happy with it so far and hope you guys like it also! Yes, it has been a very challenge write but a good write. Getting out the emotions I wish they showed more of in the episode. Thank you for reading and everything! After this chapter the posting will become a bit slower, as I started this story on spring break. I have to go back to college now but the chapters will still come.

Thanks again for reading!

-Love Taylor

P.S. Sorry this chapter is shorter than the other two.

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"Stef, are you reading that again?" I ask him, as walked into the bedroom. All I had on was one of his shirts, and smiled at him laying on the bed. He looked up from the pages he'd flipped, many times before.

"Maybe I am, it is a great book after all. The narrative is good and there is so many amazing quo—" Stefan was cut off by their lips meeting and he kissed her back passionately.

Caroline smiled sweetly at him and looked into his eyes, he returned the smile, bringing his face closer. He got close enough till their lips brushed against each other again. Once the kiss broke and their lips had parted, she laid down beside him and propped herself up on her elbows. She loved watching him read, well she loved watching him do most things. "Well if this book has such amazing quotes." Caroline placed her hand on his wrist. "Read me one that reminds you of me. Of us, Stefan."

"Mhm, let me see." He said as he looked through the words and paragraphs, till he found the passage he was looking for. He smiled and began to read to her "I will love you forever; Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I'll drift about forever, all of my atoms, till I find you again... I'll be looking for you, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won't just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me."

"Stefan" She looked at him with her eyes glistening, from the tears beginning to form.

"That reminds me of you, Caroline... of us." He laid the book down on the bed and pulled her close. "Because if I don't have you, what am I? I couldn't imagine life where we aren't together."

She jerked awake and out of habit stretched her arm out, to wrap around Stefan. As her palm came down and hit the cold sheets of that side of the bed, it all flooded back. Stefan is gone the words got caught in her throat as she looked around the dark room. The crash of thunder echoed through the room and sent a shiver across her small figure. It was this moment she realized she was all alone, he was not there to pull her close. Not there to protect her from the storm that raged outside.

After laying there for a bit longer, she realized sleep impossible, it wasn't going to happen. Caroline looked over at the clock, 3:23, it read. A couple tears broke free and rolled down her cheeks as she climbed out of bed.

Caroline walked down the dark stairs, hoping to be the only one awake as she was only wearing Stefan's shirt. She took slow footsteps, on her tiptoes through the house she should know so well, but it felt foreign. Right as she got to the Kitchen she heard someone speak, as she jumped back. If she would have been human she would be dead, her heart would have stopped from fear.