Valerie •The Vampire Diaries•

What Valerie did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of sadness, some severe blades of death, everlasting and hunger, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take a root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten, the wound was healing from the inside.

That healing was him.