Hold On, I Still Need You

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Hey my Darlings,

This Chapter was a huge change for this story... Mostly Steroline in the begining but that was kind of expected and gets to the other The first few chapters I wrote were based around so much grief and how everyone would handle it. This chapter was a nice change of pace, yet it isn't as happy as it could be yet.

Also I loved some of the voices I got to try out in this chapter It was a really enjoyable chapter to write and I can't wait to write more of it.

I truly enjoyed writing this chapter and really liked easing into to the path of where I want to take this story! I hope you are enjoy reading it and stick around for more of it.

I love hearing from the readers of this story and if you have an idea you would like to see happen or something to give to this story, please comment it or PM me the idea. I will see what I can to do get it into the story!

I love you guys and can't thank you enough for reading and supporting so far!

-Love Taylor Breanne

Caroline stirred awake and felt over to his empty side of the bed. "Stefan?!" She looked around the dark room, but he wasn't in there. He had been doing this for a few nights now but the first time had terrified her. It made her feel as if the last two weeks were just a dream.

    She got out of bed and tiptoed down the cold steps of the boarding house. She knew exactly where he would be by now as she stepped onto the porch, quietly closing the door behind her. "I remember it so clearly, like it was yesterday." She said walking up behind him. Caroline wrapped her arms around his waist and placed a kiss on his shoulder, before he could push her away. "It was the first day of school and I had just expressed how annoyingly worried I was about Elena. She had just lost her parents that summer and I was acting like the friend I was supposed to be. I was kind of terrible though."

    Caroline caressed his forearm. "I was standing there at my locker and I seen you walking that way. It was that moment, I didn't know you but something told me I was going to marry you. The mystery guy in the hallway at school. You walked on past me and didn't even know I was there, but it was the day we met." Caroline felt his body tremble in her arms, but it had become a normal occurrence. It seemed that every night he would wake up in panic state caused from guilt. She would either wake up alone or to him in a fit of anxiety. So she would just talk to him, tell him about past time, future times, or just sweet nothings from the day. Just let him know I'm there and not going anywhere.

"Later that evening, I remember being at the Mystic Grill with Bonnie. I said 'His name is Stefan Salvatore, he lives with his uncle up at the old Salvatore boarding house. He hasn't lived here since he was kid. Military family, so they moved around a lot. He's a Gemini and his favorite color is blue.' She looked at me with the most disapproving look and replied 'you found all that out in one day?' I brushed off her question and said 'Oh please, I got all of that between third and fourth period. We're planning a June wedding.' I know I was quite intense when we first met, but you also told me we would never happen. Now you're my husband." Caroline said. "I love you Stefan, so much."

Stefan looked at her with pain ridden eyes, yet with so much love. She gave him a soft smile and pulled him close to her. He wrapped his arms around her in return, burying his face in her shoulder. "You are so cute... I love you, Caroline." He said in a shaking voice, muffled against her. "Why did you decide to tell me that?"

She played with his hair as they stood there in that position. "To hopefully get your mind off of what is bothering you... Just like last night and all the nights before it, I'm not going anywhere, I am your wife and you are my husband. You mean everything to me."