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❝let's break the news❞
ELENA GASPS AS STEFAN STOPS ABRUPTLY IN FRONT OF HER, THE TWO OF THEM FINALLY ENVELOPED IN THE SILENCE OF HER HOME. She reaches out for him on instinct, a teary gleam in her eyes as she realizes how close to death she'd been barely half an hour ago.
Stefan sighs in relief and hugs Elena tight, relishing in the way she sunk against him, and the way her heartbeat steadied at his comforting touch.
"Elena, we have to talk," He reluctantly pulls away from his girlfriend, who's already frowning nervously up at him.
"What? What happened?"
"It's Damon,"
"Is he alright?" Elena couldn't help her concern, but the feeling troubled her. Damon killed her father, her biological father, for no discernible reason. She shouldn't be concerned about him, especially because he's shown no concern for her before.
"I think he's working with Elijah," Stefan's words make her heart drop to her stomach like an anchor on a ship. Her jaw drops in silent shock and Stefan gives her a sympathetic look.
"What– Stefan, how do you know?"
"I went to the house to try and talk to him and he told me that he was going to let Klaus kill you. And Katherine made a comment about it when I was trapped in the tomb with her, but I didn't believe her. Not until today. He just," Stefan shook his head, disappointment lacing his voice as he spoke about his older brother. "He admitted that he was going to let you die."
Elena shakes her head, swallowing around the concrete lump in her throat. "Why would he do that?"
Stefan's hold tightens on her arm before he loosens it again, guilt wracking his features. "Because of me,"
"Stefan, will you please just explain? Just tell me what's going on." Elena's voice hardens, frustration seeping through with her fear at his vague words.
"You know that I turned Damon even though he didn't want to be a vampire, and that I was a ripper until Lexi taught me how to control myself, but there's something else. When I first came back to Mystic Falls and Damon followed me, he wasn't coming to mess with me or us. He was coming to kill Katherine, and I wouldn't let him."
Elena instinctively steps away from her boyfriend at the mention of her doppelgänger, but Stefan keeps her close to him, an apologetic look in his eyes. "I didn't want him to kill Katherine and realize that nothing was going to bring Rosemary back. He's been so stuck in acting out his revenge that he lost sight of life, and when he found out Katherine wasn't in the tomb,"
He let out a sigh and shook his head. "I think that's when he started working with Elijah. He realized that the only way he could try and get back at me or Katherine was working with an Original."
