Darkened

After the roaring 1920s, Klaus Mikaelson began visiting Stefan Salvatore in secret - only to compel him to forget every time. What started as a game turned into something far more dangerous: a quiet obsession neither of them could name.

Now, years later, Stefan is broken after Elena chooses Damon. Klaus returns to Mystic Falls, drawn to a pain he pretends not to understand - and memories Stefan was never meant to remember start to unravel.

With every chapter alternating between the past and present, their bond grows darker, more intimate, and more destructive. And as an ancient enemy rises from Klaus's buried sins, Stefan is pulled deeper into a storm that might destroy them both.

A story of blood, compulsion, denial, desire - and a love written in silence, rewritten in fire.